"Satoshi Nakamoto.
Regardless of what you think about Bitcoin, this person/people invented and implemented it, holds a stash worth billions, and then just… disappeared. None of their bitcoin has moved since (and we would know the moment it does – we know which coins in the blockchain are theirs, and it’s watched like a hawk).It’s like something out of a movie but it’s 100% real. The current value of his stash is approx 42 billion dollars."
"What exactly was the WOW! signal?"
"The brain. The organ that can understand the universe and manipulate it using advanced technology that was devised based on the understanding. But struggles to figure out how the brain actually functions in real time. We know some things like functions of certain areas and how its failure changes the way we experience life, but we can’t explain the collective manifestation of those experiences, the consciousness."
"The Strasbourg Dancing Plague in 1518.
500 people danced for weeks until they died and there is simply no explanation."
"Hinterkaifeck Murders, 1922 Germany, as far as unsolved crimes go."
"Would be pretty cool to know who Jack the Ripper was, or who killed the Black Dahlia – or whether the guy writing letters to the police as the Zodiac Killer was actually the one committing the murders."
"Alcatraz escape – did they survive?"
"Why hotdogs are sold in packs of 12 and hotdog buns in packs of 8"
"LUCA – last universal common ancestor"
"I really want to know if George Mallory was the first person to summit Everest."
"Malaysia Airline Flight MH370"
"Why the USB cable is always upside down the first time you try to plug it in."
"Polynesian Expansion.
Moana is based on this mystery. Humans spread from Taiwan to Hawaii and every spit of land in between via dead reckoning then all of us a sudden these separate societies that had no means of communicating just stopped for a thousand years AND THEN started back up at the same time.
We have no idea why they ever sailed over the horizon with no plan OR why they stopped exploring in unison for so long. OR WHY THEY RESTARTED AT THE SAME TIME."
"Dark Matter & Dark Energy
In the standard Lambda-CDM model of cosmology, the mass–energy content of the universe is 5% ordinary matter, 26.8% dark matter, and 68.2% a form of energy known as dark energy.
Thus dark matter constitutes 85% of the total mass, while dark energy and dark matter constitute 95% of the total mass–energy content.
The leading explanation is that dark matter is some as-yet-undiscovered subatomic particle. The other main possibility is that dark matter is composed of primordial black holes."
"Where are Juan Peron’s hands?
In 1987, the hands of deceased Argentine president Juan Peron were cut off of his body and stolen from his tomb along with his cap and sword. Members of his political party received a ransom note requesting money for their return. Six men were arrested and five arraigned, but no charges were made against anyone. His hands are still lost and no person has still been charged."
"Kodinhi small town in kerala state of India the town is known for having an unusually high number of twins. It has around 2,000 families, there are something around 250 sets of twins legally recorded there. And , there could be a lot more While the national average of twin births is not more than 9 in 1000 births, in Kodinhi, the number is as high as 45 in 1000 births."
"Probably not “the greatest” – but the Isabella Gardner Museum art heist has always been a fascinating story. Lots of theories, but no leads on where the art went or why the individual pieces were chosen."
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